Ingram New Works Project
The Ingram New Works Project empowers exceptional new voices to write the stories they are most passionate about. Nashville Rep's Ingram New Works Project provides playwrights with season-long developmental support, travel, lodging, hospitality, networking, and audiences, allowing them to focus on what they do best: creating powerful, necessary, impactful new plays. The three pieces of the Project are the Lab, Fellowship, and a series of public readings. Since 2009, the Ingram New Works Project has supported the development of over 60 new plays. We are the playwrights’ home away from home, powered by Nashville’s authentic and radical hospitality.
Coming Up:
Overnight at the Museum (starring Darius and DaMarcus)
By Nia Akilah Robinson
March 14th, 7:30 PM | Nashville PBS | 161 Rains Ave
Two Black overnight museum security guards steal Ghanaian artifacts in a gentrified American neighborhood, before the grand opening of a “Neo-African Museum” and return the artifacts back to Ghana.
About the Playwright
Nia Akilah Robinson (she/her) is a playwright and actor who reps Harlem with all her might. Productions: Co-Pro: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC) & Company One Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts), NextStop Theatre (Herdon, VA), Urbanite Theatre (Sarasota, FL), Soho Rep U.S. Off Broadway Premiere (2025 New York Times Critics Pick- Extended Twice), Theatre503 (London, UK), Theatre Exile (Philadelphia, PA), and The Hearth (New York, NY). Her work has been seen and developed with Steppenwolf Theatre, The Hearth, The New Group, Theatre503 (UK), The Ground Floor: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Waterwell, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Urbanite, and New Georges. She has been a MacDowell Fellow, Travis Bogard Eugene O'Neill Foundation Fellow, and a writer for PEN America and EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (short play). Nia has had residencies at NYSAF and The Pocantico Center through YoungArts. She is a 2024 Relentless Award Semi Finalist. She is a member or alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, I-73 at Page 73, The Orchard Project NYCGreenhouse, The Wish Collective, and TheBlackHERthePen. She is proudly represented by Alex Gold at Creative Artists Agency. Education: Yale (DGSD- MFA Playwriting Candidate) & Juilliard ‘24 (Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program). https://www.niaakilahrobinson.com
Previous Ingram New Works Playwrights & Plays
Lauren Bone Noble - Madame Zarechnaya
Jonathan Payne - Narrative of the Life of Cedric Bartholomew
Krista Knight - Crybully
Hunter Bird & Oliver Houser - She Reached for Heaven
Deneen Reynolds Knott - Particularly Meddlesome Ancestors
Matthew Paul Olmos - immorality may well be imagined
Jeesun Choi - Lost Coast
Gina Femia - you know, that Bakery out in Bensonhurst that don’t got a name
Morgan Gould - Jennifer Who is Leaving
Haygen-Brice Walker - A2M
Sarah Ruhl - Becky Nurse of Salem
Lindsay Joelle - The Messengers
Dean Poynor - The Second Avenue Subway
Riti Sachdeva - Welcome to the Taj Palace (motel)
R. Eric Thomas - Crying on Television
Nate Eppler - This Red Planet
James Anthony Tyler - Pranayama
Christina Florencia Castro - The Very Last Wishes of Grandpa Joe
Tori Keenan-Zelt - How the Baby Died
Christopher Durang - Harriet and Other Horrible People
Nate Eppler - Primary User
Gabrielle Reisman - Pattern Seeking Animals
Stacy Osei-Kuffour - Big Nose
Andrew Rosendorf - Mermaid
Rebecca Gilman - Rocket Science
Jonathan Alexandratos - We See What Happen
Kyle John Schmidt - The Secretary
Edith Freni - This is About You
Helen Banner - Thrill Day
Donald Margulies - Long Lost
Nate Eppler - The Ice Treatment
Tori Keenan-Zelt - Air Space
Gabrielle Sinclair - Showing
Bianca Sams - Simply Bless
Doug Wright - Posterity
Nate Eppler - Good Monsters
Jeremy Sony - Pathogenesis
Andrew Kramer - Cut It Out
Dean Poynor - Together We Are Making a Poem in Honor of Life
Theresa Rebeck - Fever
Nate Eppler - The Future Mrs.
Garret Schneider - Ultrasound
Brian Walker - The Friend Factory
Jennifer Blackmer - Unraveled
Steven Dietz - Rancho Mirage
Nate Eppler - Larries
Kenley Smith - Empires of Eternal Void
Andrew Kramer - Crying for Lions
Michael Erickson - Honor Student
John Patrick Shanley - Storefront Church
Nate Eppler - City of the Dead
Heidi Ervin - The Hobo and The Housecat
Lisa Soland - Hand on the Plough
Joe Giordano - She’s Dead
Christine Mather - Horns of Elfland
Mary McCallum - Hunger in Paradise
Shawn Knight - Henson
David Auburn - The Columnist
Valerie Hart - Love Out Loud
McAdoo Greer - Titty Bars
Nate Eppler - Long Way Down
Dianie Di Ianni - Table
Matthew Carlton - Blessed Event
Ross Brooks - Supernova
Claudia Barnett - No 231 DeGraw Street
“New work is the life force of every art form.”
- Martha Ingram
